Lately the Army intensified their attacks with heavy shelling and Tank raids into the city. The rebels filmed these powerfull T-72 raids while under fire.

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The 2nd Battle of Darayya, is the ongoing battle being fought from the end of 2012,
between the Syrian Army and the rebels in the Damascus suburbs of Daraya
Daraya is a rebellious suburb where rebels have attempted to create a stronghold near
Damascus center. In August 2012, the Syrian Army defeated the rebels and took control
of the town

In November 2012, rebels launched a second offensive and took back control of the
suburbs and recaptured Darayya.The rebels were successful at preventing the Syrian
Army from entering the town until mid-December when the Army intensified their
attacks with heavy shelling and Tanks raids into the city.
From dec. into febr. 2013 the rebels filmed this intense T-72 raids while under fire.

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

Bloomstomb

@Bloomstomb And HD too! The proliferation of cameras have forever changed the way we view WAR, from Hollywood movies which became more realistic to Video Games. Back in the days there was very little footage of war and most people had no idea what it looked like, i donno, whether it was agood thing or a bad thing but most of us were "war-virgins"
Now i can't even watch the most "realistic" Hollywood movies about war, From Apocalypse Today and Platoon to the newest releases.More.. All these explosions and shootouts look hopelessly FAKELess..

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

Meevinman

Half way through this video, I have realized a few things about the SA, armor corps. They are well trained, use good tactics for armor only, and either these guys have become very seasoned in urban combat from this war, or were trained very well prior to it.

Those vehicles are not easy to drive, visibility sucks, and sitting still is a sure fire way to catch an RPG, but they move/shoot, and don't run into each other, in very close quarters, under extreme stress.

Having driven the M2A2 anMore..d A3 Bradley, using the periscope, it sucks, with a capital S. I ended up light, so I did not spend my time on them after training at Knox, but with out a ground guide, and replying heavily on the voice of the TC to keep you from driving into something, is not easy, under low stress training conditions.

When the smoke clears, the syrian army is going to have one bad ass armor corp, that could meet or exceed most of it's neighbors. Their only downfall, is the sophistication of their weapons systems. Head to head with other nations that use these same systems, these guys would probably mop up the competition.

That country is fucked, with a capital F, the fighting is going to continue for possibly years to come, and if this shit keeps up, the only people that will be left in the country, will be wearing a uniform, government issue. The FSA has written the death certificate of the people of that country, by fighting from windows of apartments and homes, making every structure in the country, a potential threat, and a target.Less..

Posted Sep-4-2014 By

tiredoftheBS

Agree, from the sidelines, watching tanks go at it, is amazing. But, in modern combat, so far, the battles have been relatively short, and heavily one sided. The US, and our allies, had superior guns, and could take out enemy tanks, before they could get in range of their guns. It was too easy, with very few close quarters, tank on tank battles.

Being a Cavalry Scout, which is reconnaissance for tanks, I have worked closely with them, and their 120mm,is awesome.

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

Buff4Booty

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

mikeharve

@mikeharve I'd definitely like for Assad and his guys to fall and pay for their crimes. I'm just not sure about the other guys who take over. The legit FSA I support (sunni army defectors etc), but so many jihadists and foreigners fighting now, hard to know who will actually take power if Assad falls.

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

youfreemeplease

@wokelly i understand how you feel, its choosing whose the least evil of the two,
our leaders find those decisions easy to make and just as easy to change,
how those decisions are in my countries best interest beats me

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

mikeharve

@wokelly
Just look at fucking Egypt and the rest of north Africa. Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia law....etc Just like Sadam in Iraq I would rather keep Assad. At least you know what you have got and how to handle it.

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

Nezza

But some of the worst tank movement,bunched up for the majority of the time, limited infantry support,which is required for fighting in built up areas. Traversing on to each others vehicles as well as shooting over each other, badly split arcs and obviously not servicing their thermal units and missing obvious targets they would otherwise pick up.

But shows the brutality of War, especially a civil one.Syrians laying waste to their country.

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

vorplex

@vorplex I take it you didnt notice the infantry moving through the building complexes alongside the tanks? You can clearly see them cross the road behind the tanks. This is has been SOP for SAA for a while now.
The SAA isn't so stupid it has not adapated to this warfare in 2 fucking years, give me a break... A child adapts to a hot stove element in one try, you think grown men, generals who live for this shit dont learn just as quick???

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

memfisa

I did notice the 100-odd guys crossing over, thank you very much. That's not how infantry cover in an urban warfare COIN operation works, as you can clearly see at 25:30 or so when the poor fuckers get blown to pieces by an incoming RPG.

As for adaptation to asymmetrical warfare: you don't seem to know shit about how decisions are made under totalitarian rule. Stalin gave orders that meant certain death for hundreds of thousands of his soldiers. The generals obviously knew thoseMore.. orders were bullshit but were too afraid of ruining their career (or worse) to speak up.Less..

Posted Feb-14-2013 By

vorplex

I know Russian equipment gets a lot of hate on LL, I guess bias left over from USSR, but whatever, these 40yo T72s are beastly machines if used by well trained tankers. Some DU armor on these bad boys and it's about as good as any other modern tank. Tank warfare is some tough shit.

Posted Feb-13-2013 By

N4CR

@N4CR Great Catch...only u noticed it...
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before/after the many many Daraya SHOUTS there were many many dates SHOUTed...
i removed them or reversed that sound bit.
Cant understan arabic and so used the dates from the DaryaCouncel facebook page to get the videos lined up
Think the are sorted correctly but can be 1 or 2 days of

Posted Feb-15-2013 By

HelloFriend

@HelloFriend
Had to use similar trick once when I had a bad buzz track, once you hear it on a good hifi, you know what to listen for ;P
So the video is chronologically edited.. that is very cool my friend! Thank you so much for your work, I can understand how much time this would have taken then :o I'd give you more votes if I could!